Originally Posted by
FlightDetent
Well spotted. Critical surfaces.
Has anyone heard of 'representative' surfaces recently? Came across my CBT screen the other day, not sure what they meant (poorly translated).
In my outfit (Northern Europe), we normally deice numerous times a day during the dark season. We have a "pretakeoff check" to be performed within 2 min of starting takeoff roll. Said check may be performed in 3 ways: 1. Mental review 2. Check of representative surface, and 3. Check of wings.
Our representative surface is determined in our FCOM (A320) as the left wing root area (so 2 and 3 are basically the same)
Now, for all practical purposes, I will only make a mental review (HOT still valid / no adverse change in met conditions since deice / not behind another aircraft too close as to get jet blast blow my fluids off etc etc). Should I for some reason be so unsure wrt my protection as to consider moving out in the cabin and politely ask a passenger to move over so I could check the wing (bad psychology...), then I would simply taxi in for another spraying session.
Rgds,